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0 pointswnoise15y ago0 comments

That's clearly the "why". He (and I, for that matter) want to know "how".

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Because the alternative was that IBM or HP would buy Sun - or they would simply disappear.

The result (in either case) would be a lot of IBM hardware salesmen crawling over Sun's customers saying things like: If you want to switch to DB2 to go with your new IBM servers we can do you a deal.

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0 pointswnoise15y ago0 comments

That's clearly the "why". He (and I, for that matter) want to know "how".

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iuyfgtrghjk15y ago

Because the alternative was that IBM or HP would buy Sun - or they would simply disappear.

The result (in either case) would be a lot of IBM hardware salesmen crawling over Sun's customers saying things like: If you want to switch to DB2 to go with your new IBM servers we can do you a deal.

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